They and untold thousands like them are the extremists who hide among us, the right-wing militants who, since 2002, have killed more people in the United States than jihadis have. In that time, according to New America, a Washington think tank, Islamists launched nine attacks that murdered 45, while the right-wing extremists struck 18 times, leaving 48 dead. These Americans thrive on hate and conspiracy theories, many fed to them by politicians and commentators who blithely blather about government concentration camps and impending martial law and plans to seize guns and other dystopian gibberish, apparently unaware there are people listening who don’t know it’s all lies.

The main thing you need to know about the report he’s quoting (aside the fact that “since 2002” ignores 3000 murders on 9/11) is that it only counts Muslim killings in the US that have provable connections to overseas terror–and Muslims in the US kill people all the time without the government admitting that. It took a long time for the government to admit that the 2002 Los Angeles shootings were terrorist, and the Obama administration has refeffred to the Fort Hood shootings as “workplace violence”. Both of those are on the New America list, but here are some that aren’t, as I wrote after the Charlie Hebdo attacks prompted to Sally Kohn to promote this crazy idea.

In 2007 Sulejman Talovic, a Bosnian Muslim, shot 5 people dead, wounding 4 in Salt Lake City, also not on the New America list.

But immigrant Muslims are always killing people in America for random reasons–take Somali immigrant Omar Mohamed Kalmio who, as Brenda Walker wrote “got life in prison for a 2011 mass murder in two parts. First he shot his girlfriend, then drove across town to murder her 13-year-old brother, her mother and the mother’s boyfriend. ”

Black Muslims are heavily included in the crime statistics–two Black Muslims and one immigrant Muslim are included in my survey of “Disgruntled Minority Massacres”, (anti-white workplace shooters) although the point of that article was that they were motivated by anti-white hatred more than Islam.